Ben Finney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>>I have next dictionaries:
>>a={'a':0, 'b':1, 'c':2, 'd':3}
>>b={'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2, 'e':3}
>>I want to put in a new dictionary named c all the keys that are in b
>>and re-sequence the values.
>
>
> They never had a sequence, so you can't "re-sequence" them.
>
> You have not, perhaps, worked your way through the Python
> tutorial. It's quite comprehensive and will give you a good grounding
> in the basic concepts.
>
> <URL:http://docs.python.org/tut/>
>
The values in the example are sequentially ordered wrt the keys, which
is perhaps what the OP intends.
c = dict(((k,v) for (v,k) in enumerate(x for x in sorted(a.keys()) if
b.has_key(x))))
But, yes, there is decided ambiguity in his description of the problem.
James
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